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Thursday, March 31, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Red Lyon Tavern
944 Mass. 832-8228
a touch of Irish in downtown Lawrence
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Major League 2 **PQ**4:20*, 7:15, 9:35
The Paper **R**4:35*, 7:05, 9:45
Mighty Ducks **D**2*4*15*, 7:00, 9:30
Naked Gun 33% **PQ**18:430*, 7:30, 9:40
Guarding Tess **PQ**14:25*, 7:10, 9:50
Schindler's List **R**4:00*, 8:00
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Mrs. Doubtfire PG-13 4.50
7.15; 9.45
Beethoven's 2nd PG 5.00
7.15; 9.15
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Flood left mark on Missouri
Farmers struggle to remove sand dumped by river
The Associated Press
NEW FRANKLIN, Mo.— For Kendall Kircher, life after the Great Flood of 1993 has been a beach — a dirty, sweaty, exhausting one.
Since November, he has worked from sunup to sundown, seven days a week, to remove four-foot sand piles left behind by the Missouri River, which swallowed an earthen levee and drowned 1,000 acres of his corn and soybeans.
Kircher and scores of other Missouri farmers along the river basin, who normally would be preparing for spring planting, are operating bulldozers, scrapers and other heavy equipment. They're working feverishly to peel away a sterile blanket of sand that covers some of the nation's most productive farmland and threatens their livelihoods.
About 500,000 acres, or about 60 percent of the state's Missouri River bottom land, is covered by sand, from a thin layer to a blanket up to 10 feet deep.
Experts say it could be yeas before some of the most seriously damaged soil here and in other Midwestern states produces bumper crops again.
"You keep saying to yourself, 'What can you do with this?' said Mary Ann Redelfs, a University of Missouri Extension agronomist. "Nobody knows. Nobody knows what kind of crop it will produce, or if it will."
Arnold Brucks, 73, has been farming the sandy, black-brown loam along the Missouri near Glasgow for nearly 50 years. He remembers what happened to the soil after the flood of 1951, which also turned fertile fields into windswept sand dunes.
"You don't anticipate half a crop," said Brucks, who doesn't yet know whether his 150 acres of asparagus, buried under a foot of sand, will survive. "It will be 20 years or more before the soil and fertility are built back up."
Farmers will pay dearly to clean up the river's geologic upheaval. The Soil Conservation Service put the price tag at $300 million or more in Missouri alone. But less than $10 million is available in federal flood-disaster aid to help fix the Missouri fields.
Kircher figured it would cost about $3,000 an acre to restore 213 acres covered with a foot or more of sand. The federal government will chip in about $400 an acre, he said.
"With losing all we had in the crop last year, plus getting little help from the government as far as sand removal, it's a big expense," he said.
If there's a bright spot, Kircher said,
it's that the flood also spread nutrient-rich salt, which farmers will plow in to add vitality to the soil.
In some areas, the damage is just too great to sustain a crop, so the government is buying the land. The U.S. Agriculture Department said an estimated 25,000 acres of Midwestern cropland, nearly half of which is in Missouri, would be returned to wetlands under a federal program.
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